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• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

  Christine Lagarde

  Hate, Thinking, Female

  "A Study in Power: Christine Lagarde" by Camilla Webster, www.forbes.com. August 24, 2011.

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Twilight, Feelings

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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• A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Women, Intellectual, Degrees

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.78

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• Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Angel, Men, Differences

  "The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 82), 1928.

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• Male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication

  Deborah Tannen

  Communication, Female, Crosses

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved -- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal -- God is the Omnipotent Father -- hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates.

  Gore Vidal

  God, Country, Father

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• There are two races of people -- men and women -- no matter what women's libbers would have you pretend. The male is motivated by toys and science because men are born with no purpose in the universe except to procreate. There is lots of time to kill beyond that. They've got to find work. Men have no inherent center to themselves beyond procreating. Women, however, are born with a center. They can create the universe, mother it, teach it, nurture it. Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mother, Women, Race

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• There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.

  Hilton Als

  Crazy, Successful, Men

  "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances learning in males. The same stress impairs learning in females.

  Leonard Sax

  Girl, Stress, Boys

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• Whats the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

  Will Hermes

  Passion, Love Is, Differences

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• The male quality is the creative gift.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Creative, Quality

  Quoted in C C Abbott (ed) Correspondence of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Richard Watson Dixon (1935).

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• The Christian ethic did not raise the worth of female life much above the Jewish: nor did the clinical ethic raise it much above the clerical. This is why most of those identified as witches by male inquisitors were women; and why most of those diagnosed as hysterics by male psychiatrists were also women.

  Thomas Szasz

  Christian, Female, Ethics

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.162, Syracuse University Press

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• In early times, the great majority of the male sex were slaves, as well as the whole of the female. And many ages elapsed, some of them ages of high cultivation, before any thinker was bold enough to question the rightfulness, and the absolute social necessity, either of the one slavery or of the other.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sex, Age, Slavery

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “The Subjection of Women: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Stupid, Intuition, Female

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Passion

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power?

  Andrea Dworkin

  Men, Use, Vulnerability

  Andrea Dworkin (2000). “Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Womens' Liberation”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Class, Differences

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

  J. J. Abrams

  Strong, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The terms 'male' and 'female' must be understood as representing no mere primitive opposition of sex to sex; but as defining two worlds of differing quality, in either of which men and women may jointly move and live.

  Laura Riding

  Sex, Moving, Men

  "A Personal Letter, With a Request for a Reply (1937)". "The World And Ourselves". Book by Laura Riding, www4.ntu.ac.uk. 1938.

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• There are a lot of explorations on TV of romantic relationships, and some are good and some are bad. I think there are very few explorations of male friendship that' s not just a wingman type friendship and not just an opportunity for humor, but that really explores two friends and their relationship.

  David Shore

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two Friends

  Source: collider.com

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Player, Two

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• You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

  Marianne Moore

  Heart, Men, Female

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• It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Light, Hands

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.182, Penguin

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• [Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.

  Will Cuppy

  Events, Female, Currents

  "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• [Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.

  Will Cuppy

  Running, Female, Facts

  Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

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